Might there be a way to wring some productivity when you’re away from your desk?

Mobile apps and tools can make it so a marketer’s entire day is filled with opportunities to connect, engage, and share. You can get more done while commuting, lounging, waiting, and any time when you’re not tethered to a desktop or laptop.

Which apps are best for social media marketers?

I gave a huge number of them a test run and came up with 45 amazingly useful apps that can help you accomplish social media marketing tasks with a tap, swipe, or touch.

I’d love to hear which ones are your favorites, and if I missed any that you love to use.

45 best mobile apps for your social media marketing

Dashboards and clients for social media management

1. Buffer

You can schedule updates to multiple accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+, as well as follow-up with statistics on how each post performed. The newest version of the iOS app allows for sharing and scheduling from inside other popular apps like Safari. Find an awesome link in your browser? Share it to Buffer without ever leaving the app.

2. Tweetbot

One of the most popular Twitter clients out there, Tweetbot lets you organize and interact with your Twitter stream in whichever way is most productive for you. Separate the stream into lists or channels, and tweet, respond, and reply directly from within the app.

3. Facebook Pages Manager

4. Flow for Instagram

Have you ever tried to view Instagram from an iPad? It can be a bit tough. The official app isn’t universal, so everything that’s made for iPhone gets stretched to fit iPad. Flow for Instagram solves some of these quibbles with an iPad-specific display of your Instagram feed. You can browse, like, comment, and follow, all from right within the app.

Useful tools for social media marketing tasks

5. Dropbox

Access important files from anywhere, and share with your team members whether you’re at your desk or out and about. The app is great for previewing shared files like images, perhaps in advance of an upcoming social media campaign.

6. Evernote

For note-taking and remembering, it’s tough to beat Evernote. In addition to being an all-encompassing to-do list and swipe file, the mobile app lets you snap a picture of something you wish to remember, and Evernote can pull out text and context from inside the image.

7. Asana

Asana is one of the most popular project management services, and their mobile app brings tasks, to-dos, and organization to your phone or tablet, too. Their mobile versions—iPad especially—are useful, intuitive, and beautiful.

8. Trello

At Buffer, we rely on Trello for a huge number of organizational jobs. It helps us track bugs in our Buffer product, and it’s how we arrange our content calendar each week. Being able to edit, rearrange, and add from a mobile device is a huge benefit when you’re suddenly onto a new idea.

9. HipChat

Distributed teams can get a ton of use out of HipChat for team communication (traditional offices, too). And if you happen to be away from your desk, you can still stay in touch with the conversation, even receiving notifications when someone mentions you directly.

10. Nimble

Nimble is a super-powerful contacts manager that integrates seamlessly with the social profiles of each of your contacts. Stay connected to your network, and grow your following on your social accounts by syncing your contacts with Nimble.

12. IFTTT

There are hundreds of IFTTT recipes you can try to supercharger your social media sharing. The IFTTT app makes it easy to connect services, including the biggest social media sites and your most-used services.

One of our go-to resources for creating images for social media, Canva’s new app brings all the features from the web right onto your iPad. Tap on templates, and drag elements into place to create a cool image to share—and share directly when you’re done thanks to Canva’s integrated social sharing.

Content apps for finding and sharing the latest news and links

16. Feedly

Feedly is our go-to app for subscribing to RSS feeds and discovering new content to share on social media. It integrates with all the same great apps as the web version (like Pocket and Buffer), and the forward-thinking gestures on iOS are something to behold—e.g., double-tap to close stories, swipe down to go to the next page.

17. Flipboard

Flipboard takes content from an RSS feed, Twitter list, or category and displays it in a beautiful, flippable magazine format. It’s a great resource for discovering new content and for staying on top of a category or topic.

18. Daily

A fun app we built here at Buffer, Daily provides a hand-picked stack of articles that you can share or skip with a simple swipe. It’s like Tinder for content, and it connects straight to your Buffer queue for easy scheduling.

19. Mashable

Stay on top of the latest news and trends that are happening in social media by keeping tabs on the Mashable app. All the breaking stories and interesting reads that show up on Mashable can also be viewed here.

20. TED

Needing some inspiration from one of the world’s best presentations? Pull up a TED talk on your phone or tablet. The TED app contains all the best presentations from their archives, and after watching, you can easily share the ones you most enjoy.

21. Prismatic

Nice-to-have tools to fill out your social media apps toolbox

22. Dashboard for Google Analytics

Check in on your traffic stats and campaign results from your phone. Dashboard for Google Analytics shows an easy-to-understand display of your analytics, great for seeing how your social media campaigns are faring.

23. Google Drive

24. MailChimp

If you use MailChimp for your email management, their mobile app is a super helpful way to manage your list and your campaigns on the go. Send campaigns (and edit via a companion iPad app), view stats, and manage your list, all from your phone or tablet.

26. Chimpadeedo

27. Mailchimp Snap

And finally (last MailChimp app – I swear!), with Snap you can send an email based on an image you take on your mobile phone. The app syncs with your existing lists, and it grabs your new photo or a photo from your camera roll to place into an email with your chosen text and template.

28. Hangouts

Need to connect quickly with a coworker when you’re away from the office? Google Hangouts on mobile can come in super handy in a pinch. Connect and chat with your friends or coworkers, regardless of what device they’re using.

29. Overcast

If you’re into podcasts for learning or sharing, there are a handful of great apps to try, starting with Overcast. Find podcasts via search, then build a playlist and listen from the app—offline or online.

32. WiFi Finder

33. WordPress

Our Buffer blog runs on WordPress, and so do tens of thousands of others. The WordPress mobile app makes it easy to manage everything about your site, and it works both for WordPress.com sites and for self-hosted sites.

All the official apps of the major social media channels

35. Facebook

All the features you’ve come to know and love form the web version of Facebook. And when you log in to the Facebook app, you can then quickly and easily manage Facebook logins at other sites and apps, too.

40. Pinterest

Simple and intuitive to view, like, and repin. The Pinterest app is ideal for idle browsing, and it supports sharing to Pinterest from browsers and other apps. > Download for iOS and Android

New and fringe social media channels to try

41. Snapchat

With Snapchat, you can take a photo and share a photo, then the photo disappears after your friend views it. Marketers are still figuring out how best to take advantage of this. Some early pioneers include McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and General Electric. > Download for iOS and Android

42. WhatsApp

The mobile messaging app (that is now owned by Facebook) lets you send text messages to friends and colleagues. Like Snapchat, this is one that marketers are still feeling out. There have been lots of articles written on how marketers might take advantage of WhatsApp. > Download for iOS and Android

43. Vine

The microvideo app from Twitter lets you record six-second videos that play on a loop. The integration with Twitter is seamless, so your videos will appear and play with ease. Some great use cases so far have been brands using it for how-to videos, like this one from Lowe’s.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are a huge number of helpful apps for marketers to try. You probably don’t need all 45 on your phone, but hopefully you identified a few that can help make your marketing efforts all the more efficient.

Which mobile marketing apps do you use? I’d love to hear your favorites in the comments.

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Kim Fox

Great list. I like Zite for identifying sharable content. Feedly is good too. And I just discovered Reverb – all for topical content. Also, I sometimes use Shareaholic for a quick post/share. Finally, Delicious for bookmarking.

Can forget about Facebook message since now you can not use the FB app to message people (argh). Slack app for team engagement more than Asana! Evernote’s new business card scanning function is epic, needs to integrate into Mailchimp though. Any other business card apps that go into your email list?

Great ones! Yes, Slack is a great team app, and Evernote has so many cool features. I’m not immediately familiar with any other biz card apps that sync to a mailing list. If I come across one, I’ll be sure to pass it along here. 🙂

Basecamp is also a great project management tool. Been testing Mailchimp’s Alter Ego however it seems very temperamental and more hassle than the 10% discount it is worth. Just a note for anybody considering the two-step auth tool.

Elizabeth Hall

I use Alter Ego and I think it is worth the 10% discount. It adds an additional level for protecting my email list. That is why I like it. You can also use the Mailchimp app if you want to quickly access your stats and perform some simple actions to your list. You don’t have to go through the 2-step process using the app.

Personally, I think you’ve over complicated it a bit mate. The reality, in my experience, is that while many of these apps exist and it might be more “convenient” to do work on them, I tend to really just work on the basics/surface while Im on the go – tweeting, posting, basic analytics and the like. Thats why I keep the apps on my phone nice and lean, with my own top 5. http://bit.ly/1qgVUwU

Ah, makes a lot of sense! Thanks so much for the comment. This seems like a great perspective to keep in mind while browsing through the apps here. Maybe treat it like an a la carte menu? I love the way you’ve simplified down to five of the most essential ones for you. Very inspiring!

I’m puzzled at the direction this blog is heading. What I love about Buffer is that it simplifies my social media experience — I only have to use one app to schedule all my Twitter posts for the day. Why would I want to add more complications to my system? The less time I spend using apps the better!

Great point, Saul! Thanks for the comment! Definitely, we want Buffer to be the app that helps you get the most done. I’m very happy to hear that it’s been useful for you! Sorry that posts like these take away from the simplicity of things a bit!

Great leads as always, Kevan. Personally I have and use about 60% of these…. there are a few I don’t need…. but a few to investigate now as well. For photo editing (not creating graphics with words) I absolutely swear by the free Adobe PS Express iPhone app. While I mostly use this for personal sharing vice business, it’s like a miracle in my pocket.

Adobe PS sounds like a great one, Christin! Ha, pretty amazing to see the functionality and depth of tools can fit in a pocket now!

Elizabeth Hall

This is a fantastic list of apps, many that I use already. I am however on the same page as some of the other commenters. I don’t perform complicated actions on-the-go unless I’m traveling. Even then I use my computer or iPad.

Makes a lot of sense, Elizabeth! Thanks for the comment! Are there any on this list that you’ve found useful for you on iPhone?

Elizabeth Hall

Yes, I use Tweetbot, Hootesuite, Facebook Page Manager, Evernote, Google Analytics, Mailchimp & WordPress & of course all the major network apps. If find them all useful. Thanks again for all the options. I’m definitely going to look into the other Mailchimp apps you suggested.

The blog posts from buffer apps are fantastic, but I recommend you don’t list so many options on each list. It is thorough yes, but I see ’45’ and I skip article altogether since I am too busy to digest so many. I do not think I am alone in this thought. I think posts would be more effective for a wider audience if more focused a several not dozens.

Hi Tom! Thanks so much for taking the time to share this. It’s really helpful to hear how these lists (especially this size of list) feels to you when you see the headline and when you browse the article. I’ll be very happy to keep this in mind moving forward. Sorry for coming across a bit overwhelming with these – can definitely see how these would be daunting!

For number 22 related to Google Analytics, I need to recommend Quicklytics. I’ve tried all the apps suggested and Quicklytics is the only app that I’ve found which truly lets the data be the star. All the other apps I’ve tried (and spent money on) try and make design be the star or steal from the data with annoying ads or funky design… quicklytics is clean and minimal which truly allows for numbers to shine.

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I’ve used most of these (thank God not simultaneously) and the list is great, thank you for sharing. Few I would add would be Teamwork (found it to be better than Trello) and Highrise for contact management – the option to assign tags to contacts is great for sorting later on.

Great post! You might want to add Workflowy to the next update, it’s an incredible way to organize thoughts and information!

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Hi Kevan, long time paying customer, we built Newscloud.io to turbocharge our Buffer effort, we are sorting 200,000 stories a day into 5 million topics, appreciate if you could add us to the places to find content section.

PS We are just about to release an “Add to Buffer” button so users can push dozens of stories into Buffer really quickly. Thanks Mike

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